Skirt-elevator.



Patented Sept. 23, I902.

m 0 T M v BE LE .T Wm K 18 (Application filed May 1, 1901.)

(No Ilndel.)

oYoLm-la, WASHINGTON, n. c.

U ITED STATES PATENT CHARLES W. LEE BARBER OE COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO.

SKIRT-ELEVATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 709,459, dated September 23, 190.2.

Application filed May 1, 1901. Serial No. 58,359. (No model.)

T at whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES W. LEE BAR- BER, a citizen of Great Britain, residing in the city of Colorado Springs, El Paso county, Colorado, have invented a certain new and useful Skirt-Elevator and Skirt-Supporter, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in skirt-elevating and skirt-supporting devices in whicha wire frame is rigidly attached to a belt worn around the waist under the skirt and on which frame another wire frame is hinged, so as to hang down or be raised up, elevating the skirt as it is raised, and provided with lugs that latch it up when raised, so as to hold the skirt up until released by the wearer, as may be desired in walking on the street or in dancing, &c. I attain these objects by the appliance and mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in

Figure 1 is a vertical rear view of the entire device as it appears with skirt removed and showing parts of the belt broken away. Fig. 2 is a vertical side View of the skirt-elevator, showing tilting frame 13 locked up and supporting the skirt D D; Fig. 3, a vertical side view of the skirt-elevator worn by a lady with a side of skirt broken away to show skirtelevator; Fig. 4, a vertical side view of skirtelevator partly raised, showing the adjustable tapes a a a attached to skirt D.

Similar letters refer to similar part s throughout the several views.

The belt is of cloth or other suitable material. The two frames A and B with tapes 0. a constitute the entire skirt elevator and supporter. Base-frame A is made of wire and provided witheyesd d d, to which are attached tapes a do, (tapes to be attached to the several eyes dd d, which may be increased or diminished to many or few in number, as desired,) so that they may be sewed or pinned to the inside of the skirt to hold it from slip ping upward and downward as the tilting frame is elevated, and with square eyes I) b, so as to allow a permanent surface with which to fasten it to belt C. B is the tilting frame, hinged to A by loops of the wire 6 e and provided with wards or lugs ff, madeto engage and lock onto arms g. g when the frame B is vided with spring-eyes h h and projections It is plain that if tilting frame B is raised from its position in Fig. l to its position in Fig. 2 it will raise the skirt D twice the distance between 0 and m, and as it is being raised the projections ffare compressed toward each other by the spring and recoil of k k, h h, and m against gig, till bracketcatches p p engage g g, and thus prevent tilting frame B from dropping downor being pulled down by the weight of the skirt until it is released by compressing toward each other projections 11 i, thus releasing bracketcatches pp from arms g g and allowing tilting frame B to drop to its original hanging position and also allowing the skirt to hang down as formerly. It is plain that by shortening tapes 0. a, and thus confining skirt D closer to bar n, the skirt may be forced to rise higher than if the tapes a, a were made longer and allowed the skirt D to move farther from bar n.

Projections r1 0} are intended to be useful to enable the wearer to reach back and compress them from without and through the skirt, and thus releasing the tilting frame B from bracket-catches p p and arms g g, so that the skirt D may drop down to its normal position.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A skirt elevator and supporter frame,

I comprising a cross-bar at, having a bar 9 at each end projecting at right angles thereto and having eyes I), for attaching to a belt, tapes 0. secured to a bar at, a frame B movably connected to the barn, and having brackets f, to engage the arms g, substantially as shown and described.

2. In an improved skirt elevator and supporter, the combination with wire frame B, movably attached to bar n, of frame A, and hinged thereon, provided with spring-eyes h, connected by bar m, arms is, carrying bracketcatches 19, so made as to engage. arms g, of frame A, having bar a, provided with eyesd, to which are attached adj usting-tapes a, substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.

CHARLES W. LEE BARBER.

Witnesses:

JOHN F. ll/IULLANEY, J C. WARREN. 

